28 Sep 16 @ 06:46

SCANDINAVIA’S BIGGEST PAYMENTS processor is aiming to raise DKr5.5 billion ($824m) through the issue of new shares and a partial sell down by its private equity owners. The planned otation on... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:46

FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY GROUPS from more than 20 cities across the world plan to form a federation of ‘FinTech’ hubs this year in what would be the rst attempt to coordinate... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:44

JCB ANNOUNCED THAT Apple Pay will launch in Japan in October to make mobile payments with iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2. JCB has been a... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:40

DIGITAL COMMERCE IS a growth imperative for virtually all retailers and merchants as new technologies disrupt traditional commerce use cases and ways of working. There are a variety of alternative... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:39

AS THE ONE year anniversary of the US EMV migration shift to chip approaches, new data has been released con rming the positive impact the technology is having on issuing... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:38

UNDERSCORING INVESTOR SKITTISHNESS and low tolerance for earnings disappointments, shares in French payments rm Ingenico Group fell nearly 13 percent after the cutting its full-year targets in the wake of... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:37

IZETTLE ANNOUNCED IT has acquired intelligentpos, the UK’s leading cloud based point of sale solution for shops, bars and restaurants. The acquisition sees two disruptive companies joining forces resulting in... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:34

FOR THE FIRST time in the Russian market, MDM Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia, has launched single-tap Mastercard contactless mobile payments with no additional passwords. Using... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:26

THERE HAS BEEN much written about the Australian banks pushing Apple Pay to loosen its grip on the technology that enables mobile payments. The result could bode well for US... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:21

GOOGLE IS RUMOURED to be launching the Android Pay, digital payment service, using smartphones in Japan as early as autumn, in cooperation with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, sources close to... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:19

ACCORDING TO GLOBAL Payment Cards Data and Forecasts to 2021, the total number of card payments worldwide increased by 15 percent in 2015 to 270 billion, almost double the eight... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:14

FIRST ANNAPOLIS RECENTLY completed the third edition of its semi-annual Study of Mobile Banking & Payments tracking consumer adoption and use of mobile banking and payments products. Given the energy... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:12

ONLY FIVE PERCENT of banks and other financial institutions are aware that the revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) will require open access to customer accounts, according to a UK law... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

PULSE DEBIT CARD issuers saw card performance metrics in 2015 hold steady, according to a recent study. However the adoption of mobile payments and EMV chip migration has been disappointing.... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:09

THE UK IS placing its trust in banks over government agencies to protect their biometric data such as fingerprints and iris scans, according to new research from Visa. Consumers are nearly... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:06

RETAIL FRAUD CONTINUES to rise as does its cost. According to the LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study, fraud as a percentage of revenue has increased from 1.32 percent to... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:03

  A NEW STUDY from the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum estimates the global value of micro, small and medium retailers’ transactions at $34 trillion per annum.... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 06:01

AUSTRALIANS SPENT AU$1.92 trillion using cards and cheques in 2015; of which 0.025 percent or AU$469 million worth of transactions was fraudulent. While some areas of card fraud have declined,... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 05:58

The window of opportunity is closing for banks to leverage their data to get ahead in digital services, says a new report from the Mobey Forum. Predictive Analytics in the... read more

28 Sep 16 @ 05:55

The largest UK banks are set for another windfall with the sale of the bank-owned payments company VocaLink to Mastercard for £700 million ($920 million). NEWS OF THE deal came... read more